Stranger Than Most

by SUSAN LAUTZ

Recently I had occasion to be pumped full of various nuclear markers and slid into a series of hightech tubes. I now have a new appreciation for what  y cats go through when I drag them off to the vet. Of course their ordeal only lasts about an hour including travel time. I was at the hospital from 7 a. m. until 3 p. m. Tack on another couple hours of drive time. I shouldn’t complain. All the technicians were efficient and helpful. They did their very best to make me comfortable. But there’s just no way to be comfortable lying completely still for 30 minutes hooked up to an IV full of poison while some howling machine does its business all over you.

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